"Citizen Smith Citizen Smith is a British television sitcom written by John Sullivan, first broadcast from 1977 to 1980. It starred Robert Lindsay as ""Wolfie"" Smith, a young Marxist ""urban guerrilla"" in Tooting, south London, who is attempting to emulate his hero Che Guevara. Wolfie is a reference to the Irish revolutionary Wolfe Tone, who used the pseudonym Citizen Smith in order to evade capture by the British. Wolfie is the self-proclaimed leader of the revolutionary Tooting Popular Front (the TPF, merely a small bunch of his friends), the goals of which are ""Power to the People"" and ""Freedom for"
"have been cut from the scene where Tucker serenades June; and ""Prisoners"" - where a short scene of Wolfie singing along to the Beatles track ""She Loves You"", which comes in between the shot of Speed throwing stones at Wolfie's window and the shot of the window breaking, has also been cut. Cinema Club bought the rights to the series, and later released all four series in a complete series set on 17 July 2017. Citizen Smith Citizen Smith is a British television sitcom written by John Sullivan, first broadcast from 1977 to 1980. It starred Robert Lindsay as ""Wolfie"""
"& I"" (1962–67) was set in the fictional Lobelia Avenue in Tooting. The BBC comedy series ""Citizen Smith"" (1977–80) was set in Tooting and popularised the cry ""Freedom for Tooting!"". The lead character in the series, Wolfie Smith (Robert Lindsay), was the founder of a fictional revolutionary socialist political organisation, the Tooting Popular Front. The Kitchens of Distinction (who formed in the area) recorded ""On Tooting Broadway Station"" on their album ""The Death of Cool"" (1992). In 2005, a 28 km diameter crater on Mars was named after Tooting. A geologic map of Tooting Crater is under preparation, and will"
"roles in British films such as ""That'll Be The Day"" (1973), ""Three for All"" (1975), and ""Adventures of a Taxi Driver"" (1976). He came to prominence as the cockney layabout Jakey Smith in the ITV comedy series ""Get Some In!"" (1975–1977) and was given the starring role as delusional revolutionary Wolfie Smith in the BBC sitcom ""Citizen Smith"" (1977–1980), which raised his profile. Towards the end of the run of ""Citizen Smith"", Lindsay won roles in the BBC Television Shakespeare series, including Lysander in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" (1981), Fabian in ""Twelfth Night"" (1980) and Benedick in ""Much Ado About"
"goes home at night and the kids are in bed, he must go, 'Jesus, what have I done?'"" On 1 October 2016, he was given the Freedom of the Borough of Erewash. Robert Lindsay (actor) Robert Lindsay Stevenson (born 13 December 1949), known professionally as Robert Lindsay, is an English actor. He is known for his stage and television work, including appearances with the Royal Shakespeare Company and in musical theatre, and his roles as Wolfie Smith in ""Citizen Smith"", Captain Pellew in ""Hornblower"", and Ben Harper in ""My Family"". He has won a BAFTA, a Tony Award, and three"
"Robert Lindsay (actor) Robert Lindsay Stevenson (born 13 December 1949), known professionally as Robert Lindsay, is an English actor. He is known for his stage and television work, including appearances with the Royal Shakespeare Company and in musical theatre, and his roles as Wolfie Smith in ""Citizen Smith"", Captain Pellew in ""Hornblower"", and Ben Harper in ""My Family"". He has won a BAFTA, a Tony Award, and three Olivier Awards for his work. Lindsay was born in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, to Joyce (""née"" Dunmore) and Norman Stevenson, who worked at the local Stanton Ironworks. He was one of three children and"
"method of inducing audience laughter. Also used to effect was announcer Douglas Smith's stuffy BBC vocal style. Smith would be cast as a car, an inflatable life raft, a shark, a lion, a river boat, a gun, a volcano, and in the fourth series, in the ""Bona Prince Charlie"" sketch, as England, and even more improbably, in the ""Round The World"" sketch, as the world (""... and it'll take Mr Williams more than 80 days to get around ""me""!""). These roles would require such inane phrases as ""snap snap"", ""rumble rumble"", ""roar roar snarl slaver"", or ""chug chug futt"", preceded"
"would chainsmoke during the show and blow smoke in his guests' faces. Downey's fans became known as ""Loudmouths,"" patterned after the studio lecterns decorated with gaping cartoon mouths, from which Downey's guests would go head-to-head against each other on their respective issues. Downey's signature phrases ""pablum puking liberal"" (in reference to left-liberals) and ""zip it!"" briefly enjoyed some popularity in the contemporary vernacular. He particularly enjoyed making his guests angry with each other, which on a few occasions resulted in physical confrontations. One such incident occurred on a 1988 show taped at the Apollo Theater, involving Al Sharpton and CORE"
"was written. Main Wilson loved the script, and saw the potential for a series; it was put into production almost immediately as a pilot for ""Comedy Special""—a showcase for new talent, which had succeeded ""Comedy Playhouse""—under the title ""Citizen Smith"". The pilot was a success, and four series and a Christmas special were produced between 1977 and 1980. It has been claimed that the ""Tooting Popular Front""—fictionally based near to writer John Sullivan's childhood home of Balham—was partly inspired by a real-life fellow-South London far-left group, the Brixton-based Workers' Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought, activities of which were reported in"
"first programme controller of Capital Radio and of Classic FM, he had also worked for Kent's Invicta FM. He spent time during the early 80s on the Wild Coast of the now defunct Republic of Transkei, setting up the now defunct Capital Radio 604, where he moonlighted as the Capital Crafty Cook. He was regarded by those South African broadcasters who worked under his tutelage as having mentored a generation of highly professional radio presenters. Inane patter was his nemesis. His mantra: ""If you've nothing to say, segway!"" (see segue) He was perhaps best known by the general public as"
"patterned after the studio lecterns decorated with gaping cartoon mouths, from which Downey's guests would go head-to-head against each other on their respective issues. Downey's signature phrases ""pablum puking liberal"" (referring to left leaning progressives) and ""Zip it!"" briefly enjoyed some popularity in the contemporary vernacular. He particularly enjoyed making his guests angry with each other, which on a few occasions resulted in physical confrontations. The show is also remembered for its intro, featuring Downey making strange faces with other things like the American flag, KKK, a woman's legs, and news headlines, Downey wearing boxing gloves (on the wrong hands),"
"repeated on BBC One in 1992/1993. The series has also been re-run on satellite channels UKGold/UKTV Drama and on Gold, though one episode has never been repeated - ""A Story For Christmas"" from 1977. All the episodes have been released on DVD in either the first or second boxset. John Sullivan wrote all of the episodes and all episodes starred Robert Lindsay as Wolfie. ""Citizen Smith"", a novelisation of the first series written by Christopher Kenworthy, was published by Universal books, London in 1978. (192 pages for 75p). In 2015, Robert Lindsay was reported as saying he was very keen"
"the final series of Thames TV sitcom ""Get Some In!"" in 1978 replacing Robert Lindsay (who left after the fourth series to star in ""Citizen Smith"" at the BBC) in the role of Jakey Smith. Howman co-starred with Lindsay in Claude Whatham's ""That'll Be the Day"" (1973), and also appeared in the sequel ""Stardust"" (1974). Howman's other films include ""Exposé"" (1976), a film described as a video nasty, ""S.O.S. Titanic"" (1979) as 5th officer Harold Lowe, ""The Long Good Friday"" (1980), ""Babylon"" (1981), ""Party Party"" (1983), ""The Truth About Love"" (2005) and in the ""Porridge"" feature film (1979). He also"
"quickly degenerates into a playground-style quarrel with the professors exchanging childish insults. The humour lies largely in the juxtaposition of the professors' formal tone of voice with their puerile words. This sketch spawned perhaps the show's most popular catchphrase ""...That's you, that is"", spoken after they had described someone/something supposedly pathetic and/or disgusting. This sketch was later carried over into Newman and Baddiel's own show, ""Newman and Baddiel in Pieces"". Robert Smith (played by Rob Newman) A parody of the singer Robert Smith, front-man with the British rock band The Cure. This was prompted by Baddiel's observation that, although the"
"agreeing on 20 April to finance him. The campaign was short, but hard-fought. Lambert campaigned as ""the People's Candidate"", opposing taxes on food. He described himself as a radical, and announced that he would not say a word of apology or in defence of the government, but that its conduct had been admirable. Muir Wilson stood on a protectionist platform, under the slogan ""Vote for the Tory Chicken!! Kill the London Cuckoo!!"". Surprisingly for a Conservative, he called for the redistribution of wealth and the nationalisation of railways and collieries. King-Farlow promised ""more work for Englishmen and less work for"
"Popular Front candidate against the Conservatives. Eventually, Gordon Walker reluctantly stood down and both parties supported Sandy Lindsay, who was the Master of Balliol, as an Independent Progressive. On 14 September, the Conservatives selected Quintin Hogg, who was a fellow of All Souls and a former President of the Oxford Union Society. The campaign was intense and focused almost entirely on foreign affairs. Hogg supported Chamberlain's appeasement policy. Lindsay opposed appeasement; his campaigners used the slogan ""A vote for Hogg is a vote for Hitler."" Lindsay was supported by many dissident Conservatives such as Harold Macmillan who were opposed to"
"""Bullseye"", which mixed general knowledge questions with darts. The show quickly became a popular feature of ITV's schedules on Sunday early evenings, achieving 15–17 million viewers and at times obtaining higher ratings than prime-time soap operas. It ran for fourteen years. On the back of his fame, he delivered several speeches at the Oxford Union. Bowen was the presenter throughout, along with Tony Green as the darts commentator, and several of the catchphrases he used on the programme became well-known (though he claims he never once said ""Super, smashing, great""). He would warn contestants that if they gambled and lost,"
"first series showing opposite ""Coronation Street"" on ITV attracted little attention, but repeats later that year were very successful. Inman played the camp Mr Wilberforce Claybourne Humphries and his earlier career in the clothes retail business was good preparation for this role in a menswear department. Inman developed a characteristic limp-wristed mincing walk, and a high-pitched catchphrase, ""I'm free!"", which soon entered popular culture. Inman reported that four or five members of the group Campaign for Homosexual Equality picketed one of his shows in protest as they believed his persona did not help their cause. Inman said that ""they thought"
"1970s, which were quite different from the styles worn by many Oi! skinheads and white power skinheads of the 1980s. Despite his dapper, dandyish appearance, McCourt had a reputation as a hard character. He took an uncompromising view against both the far left and far right, and was known as a social liberal. The 4-Skins and their colleagues, Cockney Rejects, met and overcame violent opposition from both militant leftists and right-wing extremists. The Italian Oi! band, Asociale, wrote the song ""Hoxton Tom for President"" in appreciation of McCourt's street-based politics. Hoxton Tom McCourt 'Hoxton' Tom McCourt (born 1961) is the"
"a Wolfe Tones GAC in Victoria. In the United States, there is the Chicago Wolfe Tones GFC in Illinois, and other Wolfe Tones clubs in Boston and Detroit, while Edmonton, Canada, is home to the Edmonton Wolfe Tones. In 1963 Brian Warfield, Noel Nagle, Tommy Byrne, and Derek Warfield formed The Wolfe Tones, an Irish rebel music band. A minor character named Wolfe Tone O'Rooney appears in Thomas Pynchon's 2006 novel ""Against the Day"". In Citizen Smith, a British sitcom broadcast from 1977 to 1980, the protagonist, 'Wolfie' Smith, is called after Tone's revolutionary pseudonym, Citoyen Smith. A cast of"
"""The Times"" diary of April 1977, the same month the pilot episode of ""Citizen Smith"" was broadcast. However, this seems to be contradicted by claims that Sullivan already had the idea for his series before starting working at the BBC in 1974, and therefore before the Workers Institute was formed. The opening titles of each episode of series 1 and 2 always began in the same way with Wolfie emerging from Tooting Broadway Underground station, then with a shot of Wolfie kicking a can across a bridge until he is in close up, accompanied by a background rendition of the"
"buy it"" when reviewing an album. Shrimpton was furious, since ABC policy prohibited direct endorsements, so ""do yourself a favour"" became Meldrum's standard recommendation. Other catchphrases that he added to the vernacular are ""So watch out for that one"", ""So there you go!"" and ""A good mate of mine"". In October 1977 Rod Stewart started his Foot Loose & Fancy Free Tour through the US. In New York the press corps were waiting for comments, Stewart was granting very few interviews – he recognised Meldrum and called him over for a ""ten-minute grab [which] turned into an hour and a"
"was former singer and radio talk host Morton Downey Jr. He would take Donahue's casual dismissiveness and transform it to open hostility directed towards his guests in the form of blowing cigarette smoke in their faces, shouting his catchphrase """"Zip it!"""" at them, and occasionally ejecting them from the set. Though it was aired at night, and ostensibly dealt with serious political and social issues, ""The Morton Downey Jr. Show"" was a pioneer in the ""Trash TV"" subgenre; and its foul language, violent in-studio fights, and extremely dysfunctional guests led to it becoming one of the most successful television talk"
"checkered pants and an undersized hat. During his routines, whenever anybody irritated him (which happened frequently) he would unleash his catchphrase: ""Oooooh! You make me so ""mad!"""" In 1950, he had his own 30-minute primetime variety television series on NBC, ""The Pinky Lee Show"", featuring vaudevillians and burlesque comics. In 1951–52 he starred with Vivian Blaine in a 15-minute sitcom, ""Those Two"". He returned in 1954 with ""The Pinky Lee Show"", sponsored by Tootsie Roll. An Emmy-nominated afternoon children's program that spawned later imitators such as ""Pee-Wee's Playhouse"", it was followed each day by the popular ""Howdy Doody Show"". Lee"
"in an advert for Victory V sweets with the slogan 'They've got a kick like a mule!' Smith became so famous that he embarked on a brief, but unsuccessful, singing career. His sons, Robert and Steven, also became equestrian champions. Competing in two Summer Olympics, Smith's best finish was fourth in the individual show jumping event at Munich in 1972. He later became a television commentator for the British Broadcasting Corporation, doing equestrian coverage at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. In 1989 Smith was honoured for being the first man to have jumped in 100 Volvo World Cup"
"and Paul Whitehouse. His influence can be seen in ""The Lovely Wobbly Randy Old Ladies"" played by Kathy Burke and Harry Enfield, with their catch phrase ""Ooh, young man!"", and in the performances of David Walliams and Matt Lucas in ""Little Britain"". The ""Elegant tramp"" (College) bears a strong resemblance to ""Sir Digby Chicken Caesar"" of Mitchell and Webb. Film Television Dick Emery Richard Gilbert Emery (19 February 19152 January 1983) was an English comedian and actor. Beginning on radio in the 1950s, a self-titled television series ran from 1963 to 1981. Richard Gilbert Emery was born in University College"
"something Green mentioned in a bitter rant against Thames in his last show. Family-friendly ""Opportunity Knocks"" was replaced by youth-orientated comedy ""The Kenny Everett Video Show"" which attracted 14 million viewers. After his rather slow-paced and """"end of the pier"""" entertainment-style shows were replaced with more active audience participation formats, Green tried presenting variants on the ""Opportunity Knocks"" theme in Ireland, Australia and one show in the USSR. Green provided the voice for Tony the Tiger in the 1970s TV advert for Frosties. Green was often mocked for his permanent door-to-door salesman's smile and Canadian accent. His catchphrase ""I mean"
"The show was very popular during its run and introduced several pop culture elements of the 1970s, such as the show's opening catchphrase (""We can rebuild him; we have the technology,"" voiced over by Richard Anderson in his role of Oscar Goldman), the slow motion action sequences, and the accompanying ""electronic"" sound effects. The slow motion action sequences were originally referred to as """"Kung Fu"" slow motion"" in popular culture (due to its usage in the 1970s martial arts television series). In 1975, a two-part episode entitled ""The Bionic Woman"", written for television by Kenneth Johnson, introduced the lead character"
"outlandish pronunciation and grammatical errors, the nasally-voiced Preston Manning (Ferguson) who loved to shout ""REFOOOOOOORM!"", a screaming, bitchy Sheila Copps (Goy), the tyrannical Lucien Bouchard, the dopey and overly-image conscious Stockwell Day, the strutting, clucking, pompous Joe Clark, and the power-hungry Paul Martin (all Ferguson). Many of the real politicians also made guest appearances on the show, often interacting directly with their parodic counterparts. However, Colonel ""Teresa"" Stacy (Ferguson) quickly emerged as the show's most popular character — each time he appeared, Stacy would load up the Chicken Cannon and fire rubber chickens and other assorted projectiles at whomever he"
"Beatles, The Goodies, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.” The first phrase he thought the character might say was ""Do I make you horny?"", which later did indeed become a catch phrase for the character. He has also disclosed that the character also draws on his recollections of former Radio Caroline DJ Simon Dee, who hosted the first real television chat show in the United Kingdom in 1967, which ended with his driving off in a sports car with a young blonde in the passenger seat. An important inspiration for the series is British super spy James Bond. Myers said of"
"election broadcast attacking Howard, showing a montage of scenes from Howard's tenure as Home Secretary, including prison riots and home repossessions. It also launched a billboard campaign showing Howard, and the Conservative Party's four previous leaders: Iain Duncan Smith, William Hague, John Major and Margaret Thatcher, with the caption ""Britain's working, don't let the Tories wreck it again"". For the Liberal Democrats, this was the second, and final election campaign fought by leader Charles Kennedy, who was strongly opposed to the Iraq War, and offered a more down to earth approach to voters, which proved popular. There were some questions,"
"save people money on their insurance. This was to which he responded with his famous catchphrase: ""oh yes!"". The catchphrase is believed to be an impersonation of Potter the Janitor (played by Deryck Guyler) from the 1970s television series ""Please Sir!"". Churchill was voiced by Bob Mortimer. Older adverts had Mortimer's voice responding to questions, posed by his comedy partner Vic Reeves. In April 2005, however, Reeves was removed from the adverts, after he was convicted of drink driving. In 2004, a Churchill hot air balloon was unveiled, and was the United Kingdom’s largest special shaped hot air balloon. It"
"mornings from 10:00 - 13:00 in the late 1980s. The catchphrase ""Hey Simon, What toime is ittt?"" originates from this time. ""Choice"" was a marketing tool used by the Bank of Ireland, which offered cheap ""Fair Cards"" for under-26s who opened a ""Choice"" account at one of their branches. Young gave the British band Bros his approval as they gained minor success with the song, ""When Will I Be Famous?"". Young made regular substitute appearances for Ian Dempsey, and these appearances extended as far as the children's television favourite ""Dempsey's Den"" on RTÉ Two. He was often seen in convulsions"